United States presidential election, 1948

The United States presidential election, 1948 was held on 2 November 1948. The incumbent President of the United States, Harry S. Truman, secured the Democratic Party's nomination for president, and he chose Alben W. Barkley as his running mate. The Republican Party chose its 1944 presidential nominee Thomas E. Dewey as its candidate once more, and he chose Governor Earl Warren as his running mate. Most predictions believed that the Republicans would win, especially because Strom Thurmond and several Southern Democrats had formed their own party, the Dixiecrats, to run in the election, while Henry A. Wallace ran as a socialist candidate, weakening the Democratic Party. However, Truman won with most of the white south, Catholic and Jewish voters, and Midwestern farmers, and he won the election with 303 electoral votes.

Results

 * Democrat dot.png Harry S. Truman/Albert W. Barkley - 303 votes
 * Republican dot.png Thomas E. Dewey/Earl Warren - 189 votes
 * Independent dot.png Strom Thurmond/Fielding L. Wright - 39 votes